| Description |
ix, 386 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN |
9781107136014 hardback |
| Contents |
Introduction: Americal literature under the shadow of the millennium -- Part I: Endtimes. American literature and the millennium / Jeremy Green -- Angels, ghosts and postsecular visions / Brian McHale -- Aging novelists and the end of the American century / Marshall Boswell -- Violence / Sean Grattan -- The end of the book ... / David Ciccoricco -- The end of postmodernism / Ralph Clare -- Part II: Forms. Enclyclopedic fictions / Stephen J. Burn -- Historical fiction / John N. Duvall -- Lyrical thinking in poetry of the 1990s / Thomas Gardner -- Story cycles / Paul March-Russell -- Materiality in the late age of print / Mary K. Holland -- Manifestos / Rachel Greenwald Smith -- Revisionary strategies / Christian Moraru -- Part III: Interconnectivity. Borders and mixed-race fictions / Aliki Varvogli -- Globalization / Paul Giles -- The two-cultures novel / Jon Adams -- Ecosystem / Heather Houser -- Virtual reality / Joseph Conte -- Part IV: Public and private life. Trauma / Patrick O'Donnell -- Family / Kasia Boddy -- AIDS / Lesley Larkin -- Part V: Institutions. The university "after" theory / Daniel Punday -- Independent presses / Jeffrey R. Di Leo. |
| Summary |
"Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century's twilight hours by launching elegies for the conventional canon, American writers proved the continuing vitality of their literature by reinvigorating inherited forms, by adopting and adapting emerging technologies to narrative ends, and by finding new voices that had remained outside that canon for too long. By reading 1990s literature in a sequence of shifting contexts - from independent presses to the AIDs crisis; from angelology to virtual reality - American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000 provides the fullest map yet of the changing shape of a rich and diverse decade's literary production. It offers new perspectives on the period's well-known landmarks, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, but also overdue recognition to writers such as Ana Castillo, Evan Dara, Steve Erickson, and Carole Maso"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Series |
American literature in transition.
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| Library Class |
English XA228.T4
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| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and technology.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Other Author |
Burn, Stephen, editor.
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